Video: Kerry was against correct data after he was for it

posted at 12:55 pm on November 17, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

Democrats crowed that they would “restore science to its rightful place” once they controlled both Congress and the White House, but science usually requires the use of correct data. The Institute for Energy Research catches John Kerry using hyperbolically wrong numbers on carbon emissions in the US as a means to use the Chicken Little approach to passing legislation:

According to the government’s own numbers, CO2 emissions didn’t increase even by a factor of 1 during that period. In an eighteen-year period (1990-2008), the total growth of CO2 emissions was only 15.9% from energy production and 30% from the energy-use sectors. Moreover, the rate of growth year-on-year has slowed in both instances. In 2008, CO2 emissions dropped 2.8% in energy production and 2.1% in energy use, likely as a result of the recession. In 2006, though, while the economy remained overheated, CO2 emissions dropped 1.45% in energy production and 2.22% in energy use.

So what exactly was Kerry talking about? Only Kerry knows, but his hyperbole seems to have an inverse relationship with the odds of passing a cap-and-trade bill in the Senate. Even Russ Feingold isn’t buying Waxman-Markey and its redistributionist tendencies, and red-state Democrats like Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh aren’t going to commit electoral suicide by killing their state economies. Coal-state Democrats such as Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd won’t toss their coal-mining voters under the bus just to satisfy Barbara Boxer and Kerry, and so Kerry wants to make this sound like impending disaster.

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I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force– if necessary– to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.

If Waxman-Markley pass… with the already start of a cold winter. I am sure even those who didn’t throw their constituients under the Obama bus are going to look at their democratic leaders… and something is going to happen.

I know, why doesn’t Kerry, Gore, Boxer, Waxman, Markey, all the members of Green Peace and every tree-hugging retard out there stage a mass suicide? Complete w/grape-flavored kool-aid, et al. And rid us of their constant whining and therefore their carbon emmissions, so that the world will be a better place b/c we will have eliminated the largest carbon producers on the planet!

I think the worst revelation about Kerry for me was that he was married to Ter-ayza Heinz. The heiress to the Heinz fortune. I sure miss my Heinz 57 sauce. Have boycotted all Heinz products for nine years. Boo hoo.

I think the worst revelation about Kerry for me was that he was married to Ter-ayza Heinz. The heiress to the Heinz fortune. I sure miss my Heinz 57 sauce. Have boycotted all Heinz products for nine years. Boo hoo.

Key West Reader on November 17, 2009 at 1:20 PM

Me too! My hubby thought it was insane to stop buying ketchup and refused to use anything else. So, I bought Hunts, put it in a Heinz ketchup bottle and told him three months after the election that he had been using Hunts and we were no longer buying that runt’s ketchup. EVAH!

The socialist dream is dwindling. But I wonder if all the Dems jumping off the bandwagon at this point are getting orders from the Politburo that it is OK. These newly Bluedog Dems went along with this fundamentally changing America malarky for a long time and only NOW realised what was going on? They are either stupid or bad actors.

Me too! My hubby thought it was insane to stop buying ketchup and refused to use anything else. So, I bought Hunts, put it in a Heinz ketchup bottle and told him three months after the election that he had been using Hunts and we were no longer buying that runt’s ketchup. EVAH!

HornetSting on November 17, 2009 at 1:27 PM

Naughty girl. What other tricks have you pulled on the poor guy?
; ^ )

The corollary to Rahm Emmanuel’s “Never let a good crisis go to waste” is to never hesitate to pretend a crisis still exists long after it has been solved. For example, Democrats have been talking about people starving in the street since the 1930′s.

Kerry, like Obama, is incapable of the truth. The only thing this coward has done is put himself in for the Silver Star and marry rich widows. His whole life has been a sham. He made the perfect candidate for the democratic nomination. He chose Edwards as his running mate who was just as intellectually dishonest as he is.

Isn’t this the guy who got 4 Purple Hearts in Vietnam? That is 4 folks! Sure he has no noticeable limp, no missing fingers or limbs, no scars, no wheel chair or feeding tubes following him around. I’m sure he has some injuries somewhere right?

The soldiers who survived the terrorist shooting at Fort Hood? Nothing! The soldiers who died because of this terrorist, (who by the way is more aware of our war more than General Casey) they get nothing too.

In related news (Attn Ed), Gaia’s Prophet AlBore says that the earth’s mantle, at 2 or 3 km down (???) is several million degrees, and the crust (isn’t that depth PART of the crust?) is pretty warm too.